2013年9月22日 星期日

CH.3 Hotel Business - Trends and Development in Hotel Lodging

Undoubtedly, the development of the hotel industry is greatly linked with the tourism industry as hotel guests are mainly travelers, businessmen on working trip and etc.  As a result, the development in hotel lodging is somehow derived from the tourism industry.  For example, if a country has a inactive tourism, there will not be many hotels as they cannot make profit on it.  So, we can say that the development of hotel industry differs in different countries.  Nevertheless, the greatest trend of it should be globalization. 

With technology nowadays, people can reserve hotel rooms online only with a few clicks.  Websites like Agoda.com, Hotels.com provide thorough information about almost every hotel in the world.  You can just select your stay duration, number of people, date, location, and then these website will quickly provide you a list of options, and then you can simply book your preferred hotel just within two minutes, which is very very convenient.  This makes the hotels a must to join these kind of website. 

Moreover, comparison among prices is very easy due to these kind of website.  Therefore, price competition will now be more important then before. 

In addition, unique features and distinction may be a main trend.  Similarly ,with rapid growth of globalization, people hold detailed information about hotels in many places.  It means that it is critical for hotels to attract customers with some special features and eye-catching gimmick.  For example, you can find that the number of unusual hotels is increasing .

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